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Old February 26th, 2004, 02:03 AM
David Bennetts
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Default Cheap air fares within Aus


"Roger Martin" wrote in message
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Anyone visiting Aus during May and June should checkout the Virgin Blue

and
Qantas airfares - $23 between most major centres. Total of 300,000 tickets
are on sale, first in first served.

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Many thanks:

Just to be pedantic - fares are $29, and they're selling like hot cakes.
The fares are available on www.jetstar.com.au for the Qantas subsidiary and
www.virginblue.com.au for Virgin Blue.

Note that the seat pitch arrangements for Jetstar are extremely crappy, they
tried this dodge of cramming in seats in Europe and were howled down with
complaints from pasengers. Virgin Blue offers 3" greater seat pitch.

Also Jetstar are using Avalon as their Melbourne airport, which is probably
fine if you live between Werribee and Geelong, if you want to travel into
Melbourne you'll probably have to pay a fortune for shuttle transport.

THey intend to use Richmond for Sydney, again fine if you live in the
western suburbs but very inconveniently located if you want to go to central
Sydney.

Using Jetstar the trip between central Melbourne and central Sydney would
become a nightmare, at least 2 1/2 hours road travel, and crammed into
substandard seating. Think I'll stick with Virgin Blue

Regards

David Bennetts